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28/11: Native-speakersim. The so-called NESTs are the ideal and more qualified English teachers, whereas NNESTs are frequently excluded, marginalized and stigmatized

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28/11: Native-speakersim. The so-called NESTs are the ideal and more qualified English teachers, whereas NNESTs are frequently excluded, marginalized and stigmatized

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Today we had the last video call with the University of Coventry.

In my group we agreed that people prefer to have native teachers even though sometimes they don't know how to transmit this knowledge because they haven't been trained for it and they are there just because they are native speakers.

This is why being an English teacher is sometimes not easy if you are not a native English speaker.

At the end we did a survey to give feedback to the people who had organised everything, and another survey asking us what we had learnt from the talks or if our opinion had changed on some of the topics that had been discussed.

Personally, it has been one of the best meetings I have had so far as we have all interacted with each other and it has been very enjoyable.

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In today's class we have been explained how to do a review in a correct and guided way. Personally I think it has been a productive task because it has helped us to have clear ideas when writing this kind of texts, which we will do about the song we have chosen, in my case Viva la vida - Coldplay.

Finally, we have been discussing in groups the different video calls we have had with Coventry University and how they could be improved.

I think it has been a very productive class as they have also explained again how the course is going to be assessed and it has helped us to get organised.

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In today's class we have done an activity where we have had to evaluate two texts written in different ways but with the same purpose and this has not been as easy as I thought.

As I had to focus on two specific rubrics, I had to stick to that way of assessing and I couldn't correct the essays in a different way.

One of those rubrics was an analytical one, which contains more detailed information taking into account the vocabulary, content or organization and, in my opinion, was easier to follow than the holistic because the holistic rubric analyzes all in a more general level. This last rubric is focus on the coherent, if the text is well organized or the kind of language you use.

I think that doing it this way has been positive because it has helped me to get to know two different ways of assessing and to be able to apply them depending on the activity to be carried out.

Finally, as I said before, if I had to choose one of the two rubrics for correcting a text, it would be the analytical one.

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1. If you had had the chance of having the cover letter models with you, how could that have it influenced your writing?
Personally, in terms of structure, compositional organisation, content, adequacy and punctuation it would not have been very different. What might have helped me would have been when it came to grammatical and vocabulary errors that I might have had any doubts about.

2. What were the main difficulties you encountered in terms of spelling, grammar and vocabulary?
What I found most difficult in this part was having to look for synonyms or a different way of explaining what I wanted to say in order to avoid making mistakes when writing.

3. How often have you revised the text structure?
I revised the structure of the text as I went doing it, paragraph by paragraph, so that everything made sense and followed an order.
When I have finished the text I have revised it all again.

4. Which contents, if any, could you have included in your letter but you didn't?
I could have included that in the summer of 2016 I spent a month studying in Ireland and in the summer of 2017 I spent a month in Norwich. In addition, that same summer the government gave me the InterWay scholarship for a language investment camp.

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The changes I have made to the cover letter have been to add missing information about the courses I have received over the years. That's why I have added that I have been studying abroad in Ireland an Norwich.

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In the first part of the class we have been comparing the two cover letters that we made taking into account the sections of deletion, addition, substitution and rearrangement.

Then, we have been evaluating two CVs using a rubric.

Finally, we have been working on our Europass in order to have it completed by the time of the video-call with UFES (Brazil), Coventry Uni and thr National Institute of Business and Management in Sri Lanka.

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In today's class we have been preparing for a job interview. In it we have been developing the different skills that we should have in a real interview situation.

Doing this test has helped me personally to realice that I need to think more about my answers before I say them because I think that way I can express myself more clearly.

On the other hand, my classmates who were assessing my partner and me have told me that I have used good pronunciation, good non-verbal language and good grammatical usage in my answers.

In addition, as suggestions for improvement, we have lacked a small introductory talk to break the ice (such as talking about the weather) and to have a suggestion of questions from the recruiter.

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This day we were doing an exam in which we put into practice what we had had in the previous classes about how to do an interview.

This exam allowed us to experience from the inside what a real interview would be like and to put into practice what we had been rehearsing.

In addition, for this interview we had to bring our CV.

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In today's class we have been discussing the answers to the video about professor Van Keers that we had seen earlier.

About this video, I found it difficult to understand because of the girl's accent, although it may have been because it is a recorded presentation and not a live one.

This has helped us to clarify the knowledge we had about what we have seen.

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Pro. Van Keers talk questions to discuss in class

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In the second part of the class, we have been thinking about things we really wanted to know to do in the classroom. Afterwards, we were discussing them and answering questionnaires that we developed.

This was quite interesting for me because it was one of the few times that I stopped to think about something that I really wanted to put into practice and that I really wanted to know about.

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Here is the link to my Video CV → https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Af1dQsb0EsEWMo7d_S6J40s8MPZL2xBl/view?usp= sharing

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In today's class we have been working on the passive voice.

This has helped me to improve my way of expressing myself in English so that it is closer to Spanish and my natural way of speaking.

To take into account the level, we then did a kahoot which helped me to consolidate what I had learnt.

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In order to divide the class into three groups for the activity we are carrying out, we have made the teams in a random way, relating to who had the same grammatical structure as us, which has helped us to practice what we saw in the previous class about active, passive and have/had something done sentences.

Once we were in teams, we checked the answers to the questionnaires we had done last Friday to get people's opinions.

Personally, in this process I was also able to develop some skills with the excel document as I didn't know how to elaborate a graph in this program and now I do. Moreover, it has helped us to observe from what general point people tend to start from.

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In today's class we have been discussing the article "Global Englishes" (Cameron & Galloway, 2019) to be discussed at Monday's meeting with students from Coventry University.

This has helped me to go deeper into the information in the text and to be more prepared for Monday's meeting.

Then, we were preparing the access for Monday's meeting so that we wouldn't have any problems, which helped me a lot because it was a bit confusing.

Finally, we filled in a questionnaire on the use of the English language.

This process was short and enjoyable because there were five people in the class and we were interacting with each other all the time and it was very pleasant.

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07/11: Varieties of English. The perception of language ‘standards’ and/or (local) varieties

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07/11: Varieties of English. The perception of language ‘standards’ and/or (local) varieties

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Today we started the VETSDELT project.

First we have gathered all the students together and introduced the topic, which had to do with the text we read last week.

Then, in smaller groups, we went to the "virtual Room" that we had assigned and we discussed the most important issues of the article.

In my group, we talked about the barriers we face when teaching English in different countries as there are different dialects and also the difficulties we can encounter when speaking with a native speaker.

Being able to discuss my own experience with people who are in the same situation as me made me realise that the problems I can encounter when learning a language are not only mine and that is why we should not give up so easily when we are faced with an obstacle.

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In today's class we have been working on where to use the different modal verbs.

First we did it through a song and then we started from our own knowledge by contributing what we knew. Finally, we did a kahoot in pairs to understand the use of each one of them.

For me it has been a bit complicated because with some of them I was a bit confused, but with practice and if I look carefully I think I can differentiate them in a short time.

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With this song we start working on modal verbs.

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In today's class we read the article that we have to discuss in next week's meeting.

For me it has been a bit heavy, because last week when we discussed it before in class with the rest of the classmates we were able to deep into the topic in a dynamic way than without discussing it before the meeting.

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14/11: Beliefs, ideologies and attitudes. The perception (awareness) of language structure, use and discourse

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14/11: Beliefs, ideologies and attitudes. The perception (awareness) of language structure, use and discourse

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Just like last week, the meeting started together and then we split into different smaller groups.

Today we were able to discuss how English is taught in the different countries where the people in my group were, the ideology we had towards this language in our country and the way it is taught in Singapore, as it was covered in the article.

Personally, I felt more comfortable in this meeting than in the previous one because I already knew the dynamics and how it worked.

Also, when we went back to the general room to share our opinions with the other groups, we could see that there was a greater variety of opinions than last week.

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In today's class we have been "forming" and discussing the origins of the different English languages.

In my case it was about the beginning of the USA.

I found it a curious class because I learned several curiosities about this country that I didn't know, and also, comparing it with the rest of the classmates we could see very different and interesting things at the same time.

Personally, taking into account that at the beginning I didn't really like how the class was going to be because I had to record myself on video without having prepared for it, which made me quite nervous and taking into account that there was time for it, it didn't end up going badly at all.

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In this video you can see what I explained before that we did about the English language.

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18/11: Language Teaching Education (LTE)

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18/11: Language Teaching Education (LTE)

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Today's class we have been preparing for the videoconference on Monday.

For me, it has been quite useful as I consider that this way I am more prepared for the meeting on Monday.

Afterwards, we made pairs depending on the pronunciation of the letter we had been assigned and we were answering all the class together about the experiences we had had with the language in class as a teacher and about what you need to be a teacher in your country.

Finally, we discussed the difference between vowels and consonants when pronouncing them and we learned that the difference is in the vocal cords, as vowels vibrate and consonants produce friction.

After this we did a kahoot that was about the phonology of words that were written with the same letters but pronounced differently. For my part, I have to say that I found it quite complicated.

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21/11: Teaching English as a Global Language. English as a reflection of other linguistic realities (the majority of English users are ‘non-native’)

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21/11: Teaching English as a Global Language. English as a reflection of other linguistic realities (the majority of English users are ‘non-native’)

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This meeting followed the same order as the two previous ones.

When we were in the individual groups we discussed some of the things we had missed in the classes we had taken during our English studies.

Those of us who commented on this agreed that we had missed pronunciation classes and that this could be a problem when communicating with native speakers.

On the other hand, we also think that creating our own activities can be good for the students as we don't have any English as a reference but at the same time it is hard because of the material we have to innovate.

Personally, I think that this meeting has gone much better than the previous ones and that thanks to them we can improve our interactions with people who are not native speakers either.

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Today's lesson was entirely based on phonology.

First of all we listened to the song "Panic" and we had to write in a paper what we understood. Then, in pairs depending on the part of the song that we would have had by chance, we started to go deeper into the topic of phonology.

Working with the International Phonetic Alphabet, we started to "transcribe" sentences from the song.

For me, this is the most difficult thing we have done in class so far as it is also something completely new.

To finish, we did a kahoot with the pair we had formed to finish working on phonology. I still found it very difficult but at the same time it helps me to understand the pronunciation of some words.

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This is the song with which we have been working on phonology.

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The Smiths - Panic (Official Music Video)

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Today we started the class working on pronunciation by correcting the last sentences of the song "Panic" and then we continued working on pronunciation with a song that we chose individually. In my case it was Viva la vida - Coldplay.

When we finished the first paragraph we corrected it with a page that we were given to continue with it at home and self-correct it.

Then, we have been explained the work we have to do for Christmas working on the song with a TBLT session.

Finally, we have been discussing what we will be doing at the last meeting we have with Coventry University.

Personally, I think it has been one of the most enjoyable classes so far because it has been a very dynamic and practical session at the same time. It has also been very satisfying as it has been when I have started to notice progress in my pronunciation when transcribing sentences.

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Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Official Video)

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In today's class we have been working on a text and vocabulary about a scene from a film we have seen of "The life of Brian" which has helped us to know this vocabulary by deduction from the context.

I found it a very interesting way as we always resort to the dictionary when we don't have a word and we don't think about what it means because of the context in which it is found. In addition to the vocabulary, we also had to answer some questions about what was going on, so we could also practice the listening comprehension part and to know to pronounce the words with a British accent.

The last part of the class was used to work on reported speech. We practised this by transcribing part of the text of the scene we saw. Personally, I think it is a simple activity but you have to know which words to use when doing reported speech so that it still has the same meaning.

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In today's class we have been working on how to write an essay about a messiah from the Valencian Community.

For me it has been a bit complicated as at that moment I didn't have the capacity to invent something like that and I have done it about the fallas of Valencia as it is the most recognised thing we have in the community.

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In addition, we have been commenting on the episode of "Hang the DJ" and doing some activities about it.

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Today's class was devoted entirely to revision for the mock we have next Tuesday.

It has been a class of ups and downs because on the one hand I was calm because we were revising the contents of the exam but on the other hand I was more tense than usual because I didn't have time with the kahoots to think about the answer and I was a bit accelerated.

In the end it was easier for me because I just understood things, especially with the reported speech, the second kahoot that we did on this topic was easier because I was clearer about the theory and it helped me to go a little faster and do it better.

Taking all this into account, I think I can do well in the final exam because now I have things clearer and with the mock exam that we are going to do on Tuesday I can have a clearer idea of how the final exam is going to go.